Will Shetterly may be the only person who has gotten death threats from racists and anti-racists. This is his history of of flamewars, black lists, and mobbing by people the internet calls Social Justice Warriors, the people who rage on the internet in the belief that's the way to make a better world.

He writes novels and short stories. Ellen Kushner called Dogland, "A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country." Elsewhere won the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Gospel of the Knife was a nominee for the World Fantasy Award.